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Topic: MOVE bombing

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Philadelphia's deadly MOVE bombing & me

Mike Africa Jr.
MOVE members depicted in the HBO documentary film "40 Years a Prisoner." (HBO)

"He was Rodney King before Rodney King"

D. Watkins
Several Philadelphia police officers stroll through the West Philadelphia neighborhood destroyed by the bombing of the MOVE headquarters. The police and radical African American organization MOVE faced off, until the police bombed the group's house. (Getty Images)

Apologies for MOVE bombing aren't enough

Mike Africa Jr.
A man walks through a blighted neighborhood, July 11, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Philly in despair

Bob Hennelly
MOVE members and police during the 1978 confrontation outside MOVE headquarters, in a still from "Let the Fire Burn." (Zeitgeist Films)

America's hidden race war

Andrew O'Hehir
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